Recreating osseous artefacts and their uses in the activities of the prehistoric communities at the Lower Danube: experimentation design and its applications in archaeology
RESULTS

Results – phase II (2021)

Abstract. The second phase of the project involved the transition to the practical stage, respectively to the implementation of the ...
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Results – phase I (2020)

Abstract. This phase aimed at testing and implementing the specific methodology of investigation at experimental and archaeological level. Two analysis ...
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DISSEMINATION

Processing Unio sp. valves for adornments at the Gumelnița communities (mill. V BC): archaeological and experimental data (Authors: Monica Margarit, Valentin Radu), Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica (BDI indexed journal), vol. 25(issue 1), p. 13-36, https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2020.25.1.2

Valves of the Unio sp. processed to be made into personal adornments are discovered from several settlements of Gumelnița culture (the second ...
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Implements of wild boar canines during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic at the Lower Danube (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Adina Boroneanț), Documenta Praehistorica (BDI indexed journal), XLVIII, 2021, p. 394-413

This paper proposes to discuss the Sus scrofa teeth technological exploitation and transformation into tools during the Neolithic and the ...
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Production of bone rings at the Hamangia settlement of Cheia (Romania): a technological and experimental analysis (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Valentina Voinea), Pontica (BDI indexed journal), 53, 2020, p. 89-107

Studies on osseous objects specific to the Hamangia culture (5th millennium cal BC) have paid more attention to exotic raw ...
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Learning from experiment: Unio freshwater mussel shells in fifth-millennium BC Romania (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Valentin Radu, Valentina Voinea), European Journal of Archaeology (ISI indexed journal), 24(2), 2021, p. 180-203

Raw materials from aquatic environments were systematically used for domestic activities even before the appearance of modern humans. Here, the ...
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